The laws of war are mild and Christian compared with the inhuman law of revenge practiced by the Versaillais troops. [The Times]
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On 26th March, 1871 Paris voted for its new insurrectionary government, The Commune, while in Versailles its enemies regrouped.
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Two cavalrymen arrived, attached tethers to the man struggling to keep up, and galloped. He was dragged, a mass of bleeding flesh. [Daudet]
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There are dead men underneath the newly laid roads. [Rev Gibson]
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The soldiers passed, two a breast on each pavement, superb, an officer at their head, revolver and sabre in hand. [Robida]
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A flock of sheep appeared, from who knows where, trotted down the rue Julien-Lacroix, disappeared then reappeared at a gallop. [Robida]
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We saw a convoy of ten or twelve omnibuses, full of human remains. [Reclus]
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The papers are awful. They do nothing but preach reprisals, vengeance and assassinations. Pour Paris. [Gromier]
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Some of the prisoners are bleeding, their ears torn off, their faces and necks gashed as though by the claws of wild animals.
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After hand-to-hand combat, the last communards surrender near Balzac’s tomb and are slaughtered against a wall at the back of the cemetery.
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The last defenders of Paris have fallen back on Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
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Paris appears a great ship in distress, firing off its last maroons. [Daudet, from fifteen miles outside the city]
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Under a sky heavy with rain, the blasts of winds carrying the screams of the mitrailleuses. [Reclus]
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With the help of some firemen from Chartres we managed to save all the books, the first two rooms of the library and the archives. [Rousse]
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They’re carrying the corpses by cart, throwing them into ditches, coveringwith lime; others doused in petrol and burned. [Reclus]
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A friend who brought news showed us the soles of his shoes, soaked in blood. [Reclus]
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The gates of the barracks closed behind them. There was a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth rrarrra of murder. [Goncourt]
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The soldiers knocked the young men down with the butt-end of their rifles and dispatched them with a pistol placed in their ears [Dr Powell]
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Nom de dieu, he must be wearing armour! [Firing squad member, after first volley fails to kill archbishop. The second succeeds]
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[Monsigneur Darboys the Archbishop of Paris, Abbe Duguerry, Judge Bonjean and three Jesuits led out into La Roquette courtyard]
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